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and some rare tree ferns of which several species are known from this still 
incompletely explored island. The next leg of our journey. Cocos to Balboa, 
was uneventful. While in the Canal Zone, August 4-*5> no scientific collecting 
was undertaken. 
Collecting was again resumed at Old Providence Island on August 6 . 
Though lying abreast the Atlantic coast of the Republic of Nicaragua, this 
island is a part of the 0 f Colombia, We found no sport fishing 
at Old Providence , Game fish were scarce or absent, a few mackerel and two 
young barracuda being about all that was caught by the fishing parties. On 
the other hand, the shore, reef collecting and dredging were very productive. 
Two new species of goboid fish were caught in a ti depool, also a small rockfish 
new to the Museum collections, as well as a new form of marine plant* 
Our arrival at Pensacola on August 9th, the twenty fourth day, 5,888 
miles out from San Diego, marked the conclusion of a most successful cruise. 
Over and above a host of other scientific material— geological , botanical, and 
zoological —33 different species of fish were caught by one means or another. 
Still other species were seen, hut for want of specimens could not be identified, 
such as the large green parrot fish at Clipperton. About 250 individual 
fish, representing about 60 different species, were brought back to the Museum 
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for study and permanent preservation in the National Collections ^ 
The larger game fish are most inadequately represented in ichthyologi- 
cal collections throughout the world* not so much for want of facilities for 
storing them* as because of the difficulties attendant upon their preservation 
at the time of capture and their transport to their final resting place* which 
in the past necessitated large and often xinwieldy tanks and almost unmanageable 
quantities of preserving fluid* Aboard the HOUSTON* however* it was a relatively 
